Subj : Re: Um...no comment? To : Angus McLeod From : Finnigann Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 06:51 pm -=> Angus McLeod wrote to Finnigann <=- AM> Re: Re: Um...no comment? AM> By: Finnigann to Angus McLeod on Tue Sep 13 2005 06:05:00 > > No single tax plan will be fair to everyone. > > AM> If everyone is treated equally, where is the unfairness? > > But not everyone is equal, financially. AM> So what? Should any law of the land be written to take your financial AM> status into consideration? My personal status... umm no. But if it's set to levels I gotta fall into one of them, don't you think. It's gatt be some cosmic law. I think I reda it on a TEE shirt. Every body is somewhere! > AM> (In actual fact, I think that the law regarding payment of customs > AM> duties is one of the two laws that *everyone* has a *duty* to try to > AM> break. The other one is the law regarding payment of income tax.) > > Then why have such laws in the first place? AM> What I am telling you is: I don't think we SHOULD have such laws in AM> the first place, and since we do and can't get rid of them, we should AM> all do our best to evade/avoid them. Sounds problematical. I are you sure you can't get laws changed? Is it a law someplace? > > If we all made 100,000 + then it wouldn't be such a question. > > AM> Why? because we'd all be victimized the same? > > You say victimized, I say contributions. See it's all about perceptions. AM> My perception is that the world is full of people who couldn't make a AM> dollar out of eight bits. And they all sit around and vote for laws AM> that say *THEY* get to NOT pay taxes, while *I* get to pay taxes AM> DOUBLE. That is victimization. People don't vote for laws here. we have representitives for that. We vote for them adn they vote for (or not) for the laws suggested by other congress people. I'm not sure where the PAC money comes into play in this... .... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 þ Synchronet þ Bits-N-Bytes BBS Onehellofa BBS bnb.dtdns.net .